pancake
English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake, equivalent to pan + cake. Perhaps adapted from Middle Low German pankôke, pannekôke, from Old Saxon *pannakōko (suggested by derivatives Old Saxon pannakōkilo and pannakōkilīn), where the compound is much older; compare Old High German phankuohho (8th century), whence Middle High German phankuoche, German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”); further Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”). The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.
Pronunciation
Noun
pancake (plural pancakes)
- A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:
- In England, an often unleavened cake similar to a crepe.
- In the US (and e.g. Scotland), a leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.
- (theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
- (juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
- Anything very thin and flat.
- 2004, William H. Cropper, Great Physicists
- Most of the electrons would pass through the hadron pancake with no interaction, but a few would collide […]
- 2004, William H. Cropper, Great Physicists
- Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
- 1903, Davis Rich Dewey, Twelfth Census of the United States: Special report: Employees and Wages p. 1200
- &hellip in the poorer grades the heel is made of scrap leather and leather board or pulp, finished with a solid leather top lift. The composite material, called pancake, is made by an operative, usually a girl, called a pancake-maker; it is used sometimes for soles as well as heels.
- 1903, Davis Rich Dewey, Twelfth Census of the United States: Special report: Employees and Wages p. 1200
- (film, slang) A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.
- (volleyball) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text
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Verb
pancake (third-person singular simple present pancakes, present participle pancaking, simple past and past participle pancaked)
- (intransitive) To make a pancake landing.
- (construction, demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
- (transitive) To flatten violently.
- 2011, Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters:
- Poor old Sleepy suffered from an on-duty head injury he'd got by chasing a Corvette on a police motorcycle, ending up like a pancaked roadkill with half his scalp flapping in the backwash of freeway commuters […]
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
pancake m (plural pancakes)
Further reading
- “pancake”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
pancake
- pancake (kind of fried cake)
Descendants
References
- “panne-cāke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.
Portuguese
Noun
pancake f (plural pancakes)
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